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“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
― H.G. Wells

“When smashing monuments, save the pedestals. They always come in handy.”
― Stanislaw Lem

“No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.”
― Stanislaw Lem

“Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?”
― Stanisław Lem, Solaris

“Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been. We have built up the most gigantic police apparatus, with informers made a national institution, and the most refined scientific system of political and mental torture. We whip the groaning masses of the country towards a theoretical future happiness, which only we can.”
― Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

“Death twitches my ear;
'Live,' he says...
'I'm coming.”
― Virgil

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Πατρίδα είναι εκεί που οι ηλίθιοι είναι γνωριμοι”
― Αλέξανδρος Θεοφανίδης